Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

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• A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Dream, Thousand

  Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “Poems”, Everyman's Library

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• Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

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  Forever

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• I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

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  Inspirational, Night, Silence

  Arthur Rimbaud (2013). “A Season in Hell”, p.27, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

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  Unbearable, Unbearable Things, Total Eclipse

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• Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

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  Life, Farce, Life Is

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• True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

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  Memories, Lying, Creative

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• Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

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  Sea, Sun, Eternity

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• I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log.

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  Love, Dream, Feelings

  Arthur Rimbaud (2017). “A Season in Hell”, p.24, BookRix

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• Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

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  Recovery, Entrepreneur, Childhood

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• Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

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  Love, Knowledge, Keys

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• A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.

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  Running, Dream, Heart

  Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “Poems”, Everyman's Library

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• I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

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  Sky, Muse

  "My Bohemian Life (Fantasy)". Poem by Arthur Rimbaud, st. 1,

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• Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

  Arthur Rimbaud

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• The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

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  Long, Poet, Seers

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• On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were a woman. "Sensation

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  Summer, Blue, Wind

  Arthur Rimbaud, “Sensation”

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• Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

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  Memories, Creativity, Senses

  Arthur Rimbaud (2013). “A Season in Hell & Illuminations”, Modern Library

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• I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.

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  Strong, Ideas, Suffering

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• Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

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  Heart, Wine, Remember

  Arthur Rimbaud (1961). “Une Saison en Enfer & Le Bateau Ivre”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought

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  Animal, Fire, Color

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• Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.

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  Couple, Attachment, Self

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• I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

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  Knowing, Not Knowing, Pagan

  Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varèse (2011). “A Season in Hell and the Drunken Boat”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• ...as for me, I am intact; and I don't care.

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  Care, I Don't Care, Don't Care

  Arthur Rimbaud (1961). “Une Saison en Enfer & Le Bateau Ivre”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

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  Long, Suffering, Trying

  Arthur Rimbaud (1974). “A Season in Hell: The Illuminations”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

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  Time, Youth, Sensitive

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

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  Country, Beach, Sleep

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